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Ivan Turgenev

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Ivan Turgenev


Born
in Oryol, Oryol Governorate, Russian Empire
November 09, 1818

Died
September 03, 1883

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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Cyrillic: Иван Сергеевич Тургенев) was a novelist, poet, and dramatist, and now ranks as one of the towering figures of Russian literature. His major works include the short-story collection A Sportsman’s Sketches (1852) and the novels Rudin (1856), Home of the Gentry (1859), On the Eve (1860), and Fathers and Sons (1862).

These works offer realistic, affectionate portrayals of the Russian peasantry and penetrating studies of the Russian intelligentsia who were attempting to move the country into a new age. His masterpiece, Fathers and Sons, is considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.

Turgenev was a contemporary with Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy. While these wrote about church and reli
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Average rating: 3.92 · 196,371 ratings · 13,202 reviews · 1,822 distinct worksSimilar authors
Fathers and Sons

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First Love

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3.77 avg rating — 24,589 ratings — published 1860 — 44 editions
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Mumu

3.78 avg rating — 11,027 ratings — published 1852 — 169 editions
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Sketches from a Hunter's Album

3.96 avg rating — 9,020 ratings — published 1852 — 739 editions
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Spring Torrents

3.95 avg rating — 5,746 ratings — published 1872 — 654 editions
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Home of the Gentry

3.92 avg rating — 5,562 ratings — published 1859 — 694 editions
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Rudin

3.78 avg rating — 4,710 ratings — published 1856 — 8 editions
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Diary of a Superfluous Man

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On the Eve

3.83 avg rating — 4,146 ratings — published 1860 — 26 editions
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Asya

3.97 avg rating — 3,776 ratings — published 1858 — 106 editions
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Quotes by Ivan Turgenev  (?)
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“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
Ivan Turgenev

“We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.”
Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

“Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate!”
Ivan S. Turgenev, Rudin

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  66 votes, 30.3%

 
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On the Eve by Ivan Turgenev, 1860, 234p
 
  15 votes, 6.9%

 
  14 votes, 6.4%

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